They used guys who are getting out soon and have no designs on going to some other covert job, and some others who for various reasons are not deploying with the Teams again.  So I heard from the SEAL I work with…

Anyone ever seen the direct-to-DVD poker film The Grand?  It's no
Rounders, but the poker is fairly realistic, and if you've spent any
time around the poker scene it's probably good for a couple laughs. 

I thought the Crimson Tide dialogue was just solid research.  It's common knowledge among naval officers that you can get Sailors to do anything if you pretend to share a bond over their favorite comic book / computer game / sports team /  anime tentacle rape porn.  It's a great way for weak officers to paper over…

None of that's particularly false, but put in the context of the 19th and 20th centuries, I think Americans have gotten into a bad habit of belief that everything we've done wrong is inexcusable barbarism while the transgressions of every other nation or group from the Nazis and Japanese in World War II up through…

True; all great points in a great thread.  The funny thing about Okinawa that I wouldn't know unless I spent a lot of time there is the locals don't consider themselves Japanese, and they are considered at best second class citizens by mainland Japanese today, hence the less than great treatment they got by Japanese…

If by "the Julia Roberts thing" you mean her or her character existing in 11, I'm completely with you.  I went into remake thinking it would be along the same lines as the original, in which a bunch of buddies get wasted and make a movie about a bunch of buddies knocking over a casino.  That's solid fun for me.  The…

No.  They had P-39s and P-40s in North Africa and through Anzio, which were perfectly fine for their job, which was mostly ground attack missions at that point, and the same as any other fighter group in that part of the war at that time.  When the strategic bombing campaign picked up and the need for escort fighters…

I am in fact old enough to have owned and had confiscated by my parents due to semi-obsessive play SWOTL.  I still remember the mission where you start out in a P-47 pointed right at a German airfield abeam of a Bf-109, and if you do it just right you can stern convert on the 109, blast him, and go on to strafe and…

In case anyone else found themselves hypnotized through repetition by the soundtrack and wants to purchase some of the songs, unfortunately most of the ones you might want to buy are not available for individual purchase on iTunes, and are only available if you buy the entire soundtrack album.  I was enchanted by the…

Now that you mention it, maybe that's why I found him endearing, or at least familiar.  Asperger's runs in my family. I didn't think of it when I was watching the movie, but the Driver has all the classic symptoms nailed.

After reading this post, I feel like I know KDBryan better.

Just got back from this, and found it very good.  The only things keeping me from calling it great probably have more to do with my personal tastes than any objective flaw in the film itself; as an 80s inspired retro genre film, it delivers the goods every second.  The cast was impeccable, Brooks' role lived up to the…

As a brother and husband, I would like to disagree or at least disapprove.  But as a guy who was young and single in the late 90s / early-mid 00s, I know it's not only true but think it's the most awesome development in the recent history of Western civilization.

You know, you're right.  I can find her as irritating as I want, I'm not her target demographic.  Me hating on her is completely irrelevant, because she's probably not playing to me.  It would be like women hating on… I almost said the Entourage guys, but I can't really stand that show either, at least recently.

You're right.  I just IMDBed F9/11, and it came out in 2004.  That's a pretty quick turnaround for the Iraq material, and he was probably ahead of the preponderance of material available by then. 

Yes, it was.  It was in poor taste, ineffective, and ultimately exploitative of mental disease, all of which ultimately undermine the argument Moore was trying and failing to make.  And it's not like there are not other lines of attack on the NRA.  At the time, the NRA was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on…

Like —- said.  There are plenty of worse looking women in Hollywood who are beloved by the AVC masses, but none of them are consistently portrayed as a sex symbol or ideal mare (shit, I meant mate; ideal mate) the way SJP is.  Certainly the least appealing woman filling straight love interest roles anywhere.  She's…

That's a good point, except it assumes what Limbaugh speaks with the voice of mainstream conservatism, which he does not.  A lot of conservatives can't stand Limbaugh, Coulter, Beck, etc. for more or less hijacking the label and applying it to their often batshit crazy ideas and agenda.  Hating them doesn't make you…

Agree.  That's why the best docs are the ones where the filmmakers rarely if ever appear on camera; they let things like facts and supporting materials tell the story.  The story is the focus, not the filmmaker, as it should be.  You might say I'm not a Moore or Spurlock fan, though I agree with most of their points.

I agree.  The rigged game Moore plays, and I'm sure he's aware of it, is it's impossible to attack the quality of his films without seeming to attack the cause.